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First activist charged under new laws in UK receive sentences ranging from 15 months to 4 years for campaign of intimidation against Huntingdon Life Sciences.
And British animal rights activists plan to follow them to protest.
Procedures involving non-human primates decline 12 percent in 2004 compared to 2003.
As usual, the Vivisection Mis-Information Network can't quite get its facts straight.
Dozens of dogs and five horses released by animal rights extremists opposed to hunting.
British animal rights extremists continue tactic of threatening secondary and tertiary targets.
ALF activists proud of setting fire to home with children inside.
Mark Taylor becomes charged for harassment, assaults related to animal rights protests in Great Britain.
Hmmm . . . how come you never see Nobel Laureaetes singing on to PCRM statements?
Meanwhile, idiot journalist says toxicology tests are not medical research.
But number of very aggressive attacks increases.
Prospects for reversal of fox hunting law in Great Britain appears to be slim.
On July 8, a homeless man was assaulted by a female animal rights activist. The activist was not apprehended. . .
But judge refuses HLS request for names and addresses of all 10,000 SHAC supporters.
Extremists target lobster fisherman.
IFAW destroys ivory which, of course, simply decreases the stock of available ivory and thereby increases the value of existing ivory.
While pharmaceutical spending increased by 11 percent worldwide in 2003, spending in Great Britain declined in part due to animal rights extremists.
But government continues to reject horse cloning for commercial purposes, such as creating better race horses.
Police come out with wishy washy statement that they want to "discourage" illegal anti-hunt actions. Are officials in the UK really this clueless?
Even though ban forced them to change their methods, hunts supporters say 800 foxes were killed after the ban went into effect -- about the same as during the identical period last year.
But the Institute of Cancer Research funds animal tests.
Three days without food is not much of a "hunger strike."
But Times fails to back up its main claim that former developer James Gorman is actively funding such extremists.
Of course Bailey, who seeks to abolish all animal testing, is an animal rights activist.
Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe says aquariums are inherently cruel.
Advocates of hunting in Great Britain prove they can be as extreme and violent as animal rights activists.
British police have spent 10 million pounds over the last 5 years protecting companies from animal rights activists, and may be looking for money from the firms themselves.
In February, animal rights activists in Great Britain and the United States held protests to remember. . .
Silly debate over brief scene of cat attacking a pigeon in "Life Is A Miracle."
Court awards activists monetary damages, but upholds backwards British libel laws.
Hunt spectators throw things at animal rights demonstrators.
Another prominent SHAC activist convicted of extremist activities.
Once again, SHAC claims it has HLS teetering on the brink -- even as HLS' earnings and stock price soar.
If activists do not want wildlife killed, then why are they stopping fox hunting?
Ten protesters were wrongly charged with assault in 2001, and police reach settlement agreement to avoid lawsuit.
The British government once again demonstrates it doesn't have a clue by leaving open the issue of whether denial of service attacks are legal.
British activists see fight against Oxford University research center as pivotal moment.
Universities try to comply with new Freedom of Information Act while also trying to shield researchers from being targetted by animal rights extremists.
Once fox hunting with hounds ban is set, many activists plan to turn their attention to banning greyhound racing.
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry warns that pharmacuetical companies may pull out of Great Britain if the country can't tame animal rights extremists.
Fox hunt supporters will appeal decision as well as file human rights-based complaint with European human rights court.
Elderly grandmother has suffered physical assaults and abuse because she is the cleaning lady for a man who raises guinea pigs for medical research.
Nine people died from vCJD in the UK in 2004.
But has the university seriously considered its path forward, or is it simply engaging in wishful thinking?
A roundup of whose in jail for animal rights extremist activities at the start of the new year.
Labor government has to invoke Parliament Act for only the fourth time since 1949, but hunting foxes with hounds will be illegal in Great Britain beginning in February 2005.
UK media coverage of animal rights extremism tends to be atrocious.
RSPCA again jumps the shark.
Former EU Commissioner Chris Patten says animal rights extremism is "a serious blow against the basic liberties of a plural society."
Animal Aid activists denigrate research on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
British government promises to give police new powers, but Royal Society complains that concerns of university researchers still are not being taken into consideration.
Injunction will place limits on time and place of animal rights protests against Oxford University's animal laboratory.
Novartis chair says that animal rights extremism makes him question wisdom of Novartis remaining in UK.
UK and US activists want Richard Branson to ban the transport of hunting rifles to discourage Europeans from hunting in other parts of the world.
RSPCA releases booklet of prayers for people to use to pray for souls of animals killed for food or as part of animal research.
Activist also receives indefinite order forbidding him from having contact with employees of guinea pig farm.
Animal Liberation Front spokesman asks why should children of researchers be allowed to go about their lives as normal when animals are being killed?
Nineteen directors of Emerson also receive letters threatening "violent retribution" if the company doesn't cut ties with Yamanouchi.
But claim that victims are nonviolent activists rings hollow.
In April 2004 the UK Animal Welfare Minister announced that the government had rejected calls for a ban on halal and kosher slaughter.
British internal security agency may become involved with fight against animal rights extremists in that country.
CEOs of major pharmaceutical firms say things must change or they will direct their new investments elsewhere.
Increase is driven largely by genetic research.
What can be done to stop acts of animal rights extremism in Great Britain and the United States?
After being banned because of his views in support of violence, animal rights activists gives videotaped speech.
Follows on documentation of the second case of vCJD spreading via blood transfusion.
Woman protests against animal research, but has no qualms about using fruits of such research if it might save her from cancer.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection's new CEO talks out of both sides of his mouth on animal rights violence.
Anti-HLS activities demonstrate what many animal rights activists really mean by "compassion" for all.
Come on, get serious about fasting and make Barry Horne proud.
Among other changes, law would increase penalties for animal fighting and prevent children under 16 from buying pets.
CEO notes that his and other firms spend millions on security in Great Britain that could go to drug research.
In mid-1990s, Blair spokesman and other Labour politicians expressed their support for ending animal experiments.
Police win most of case in arrest of minor at 1998 animal rights protest, but only after spending 100,000 pounds in legal fees.
SHAC's method of choosing its next target is quickly becoming a parody of itself.
Judges cut in half sentences of two activists convicted of making more than a thousand phone calls to disrupt Covance and Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Leaflet inserted in children's magazine had cartoons of animals on front and images of abused animals inside.
Government also promises to publish more general information of extent and types of animal research.
Dan Lyons says xenotransplantation will never work because humans and animals are too different. His solution -- more animal research!
Apparently not quite understanding the concept.
And the same groups that complain about the increase in animals used for medical research promptly declare the plan to be "a joke" and "a shame."
Pharmaceutical industry group finds rise in animal rights violence during first quarter of 2004 as compared to first quarter of 2003.
Temporary injunctions against animal rights activist made permanent against seven defendants, while four defendants will be allowed to present their case against a permanent injunction.
Activist back in jail over anti-guinea pig farm actions.
PETA denied permit to display its "Holocaust On Your Plate" materials in London and Birmingham, but go aheads anyway leading to arrest.
Dr. Twink Allen accuses Home Office of "blatant Government suppression of innovative science for political expedience."
Batman Begins will film at medical research facility in the UK.
ALF spokesman says exhibit that recycles materials from used fur coats could be targeted.
Oxford University says it has dealt with animal rights protests in the past and is confident it can handle any future such protests.
Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs goes after company that sells natural gas to animal breeding firm.
Chiron receives same protection that Huntingdon Life Sciences and other companies in Great Britain have received.
BMJ publishes study claiming that there is little evidence that animal research has benefitted human health.
Web site incites violence against British celebrities, apparently largely over angling.
And neither researchers nor animal activists are happy about it.
And House of Commons Leader sympthazies with their goals.
But hunt member says that it's all a publicity stunt by hunt opponents.
And SHAC spokesman says the threats are all just an industry hoax . . . because animal rights activists would never threaten people they disagree with.
ARM returns to threaten yet another group of animal researchers.
Activist Paul Leboutillier receives 5 year jail sentence for making thousands of calls to HLS, Covance employees and others.
Activists pens letter from jail about the pointlessness of such ridiculously short sentences.
Site urges activists to "make the bastards pay."
Activists have damaged thousands of traps since 1998 in opposition to study of bovine tuberculosis in badgers.
SHAC-like group continues to succeed in campaign of harassment and threats.
Could they send a long a couple of PETA members into space to protest it, while they're at it?
For years company's security guards bear brunt of animal rights harassment, but after a few protests at the company's headquarters suddenly Securior announces it won't renew HLS contract.
In January, a British judge issued an injunction limiting protests against company that leased property to another company that is a customer of HLS.
Is Mike O'Brien just trying to shift the burden of banning cat and dog fur onto the European Union?
What better way to celebrate a convicted terrorist's death than with further acts of terrorism?
On the heels of a vote to ban fox hunting in Great Britain, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gears up for an anti-fishing campaign.